Politico Reporter Fired for Plagiarism

According to our sister site FishbowlDC, Kendra Marr, a transportation reporter for Politico, has been fired for plagiarism. Marr was let go by Politico after a New York Times reporter came to the site’s Editor-in-Chief John Harris and Executive Editor Jim VandeHei with evidence of Marr lifting passages from other publications and presenting them as her own.

According to a Politico memo, Marr’s mistakes were in failing to cite sources:

There were instances of language and ideas published in at least seven of her Politico stories that borrowed without attribution from work that had been published previously in other publications. As we say in the editors’ note, we have found no cases of invention of scenes and quotes. Even so, these examples represented a lapse of our standards that we could not defend or tolerate.